I am so happy to see this fucked up food service system crumbling in my lifetime. I never thought it would happen. If a business can't afford to pay its employees than it should not survive. I cannot see one ounce of reason behind customers directly paying the wages for any company's employees. Where did this model come from in the first place?

Non-pop music is a genre that has been dominated by male performers since its inception.
First wave of acceptance seems to have been objectification/discrimination. Next seems to be comparisons to their counterparts as a result of increased visibility. Sooner or later it will be accepted as commonplace. I don't see anything unusual in this process.

The worst cliche is transplants bitching about Seattle cliches. Seriously FUCK OFF. Go home. We do not want you. The Seattle freeze is real and necessary. When I was unfortunate enough to have to leave Seattle for a year and live in LA, I somehow managed not to open my big, fat mouth about all of it's obvious cliched shortcomings. It's not that hard.

@5 if you take the bigotry out of the enlightenment you still have unique, functional, and applicable theories and practices. If you remove bigotry from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all you have is standard secular moral suggestions, such as the Golden Rule etc.

There is no place for the Abrahamic religions in the modern world. There could be some mild argument for general spirituality, but even that is a bit of a luxury in my opinion.